Monday Night Speaker Series (winter '21)
All are welcome to join us on Monday nights in a virtual classroom to hear some amazing and inspirational guest speakers.
Speaker Schedule
Monday night from 4:00-5:00 PM (PST)
January 25th
Naketa Thigpen
Author of Selfish: Permission to Pause, Live, Love and Laugh Your Way to Joy
February 1st
Laura Sanchez-Greenburg
Certified Executive and Certified Life Coach
February 8th
Jonathan Jackson
Rebecca Jackson
Customer Discovery and Enlightenment
Speakers
Meet our speakers
Laura J. Sanchez-Greenberg
Laura is a leading authority on team dynamics, leadership, peak performance, mental toughness and coaching, is founder and managing partner of Verde Associates, a performance acceleration firm focused on transforming individuals and the companies they lead. She works with some of the country’s leading early and growth stage companies, including organizations such as Simple Mills, RXBAR, Chomps, Kehe, and many others. Laura has trained in improv, culinary arts, and is certified in over 25 assessments and special topic areas related to her work, with a focus on communication and performance maximization. Laura holds an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, a certificate in Change Management from Harvard Business School, and has studied Group Dynamics and Organizational Design from Georgetown University, and Negotiation and Mediation at the University of Chicago. Laura is currently pursuing her PhD in Values Based Leadership; her research focuses on strategies and traits of teams that have experienced accelerated growth and maintained excellent cultural, people, and financial success.
Chris’ extensive experience participating in and leading work teams, non-profit boards and governmental committees has led him to log countless hours in meetings, and he has learned both what works and what doesn’t.
Rebecca Jackson
Cofounder at 1Billion
Customer Discovery: The Fastest Way to Launch New Products
Description: Customer discovery removes the guesswork from product launches. It shows how to reach ideal customers in the wild, what product or service features to include, how to position against real-world competition, how to price effectively—using nothing but time and conversation
Naketa Thigpen
Motivated by the alignment of work/life (and Love), I co-founded ThigPro, a global personal development company with my husband in 2011.
After failing in our first business, I invested in several growth and development programs and coaches to help me tap into the power I knew I held but fear and limitation seem to conceal.
Over the course of trying to salvage our business (and recoup our life savings), I utilized every communication, relationship management, and work/life balance tool I held in my clinical and coaching toolboxes to survive the roller coaster of success.
I didn’t want to choose having an amazing love life over growing a business.
The clients who we served through my transformative empowerment keynotes or our breakthrough success coaching programs learning how to implement more efficient systems and priority management skills into their business, didn’t want to choose either.
Hence the natural evolution of our company’s focus to integrating more of my foundational experience with human behavior, mindfulness, mental well-being and relationship tools as core staples of our personal and leadership development programs.
Acknowledging the need, we deepened our impact to help ambitious women entrepreneurs, emerging leaders (and a few brave men) move beyond barely surviving work/life balance to amplify intimacy within and across relationships so they can thrive in work/life (and LOVE).
By getting get more of what you want, you get to fully live the life you teach to others and begin to live a life of (and).
Create your balance (and) Create your joy.
When done correctly, you unravel what binds your brilliance and fully live what you teach others.
Love (and) Success…
Jonathan Jackson
CEO and Cofounder at 1Billion
Customer Discovery: The Fastest Way to Launch New Products
Description: Customer discovery removes the guesswork from product launches. It shows how to reach ideal customers in the wild, what product or service features to include, how to position against real-world competition, how to price effectively—using nothing but time and conversation